YOU WOULD BE FORGIVEN IN
THINKING THAT YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE OF THE MOON
Because only 59% of the moon’s
surface is visible from Earth
there is still reason to
believe in cheese. Indulge me please.
We may see only the nearside,
but that nine percent beyond one-half
is hard fought territory
existing only in the libration zones
where our lunar buddy gently wobbles
in Earth’s sky
playing at peek-a-boo with the
naked eye. And while nothing
has gone uncharted, to observe
this bonus acreage,
is to see around corners a
little way around the east and west
limb and over the north and
south and to be able to
distinguish
craters foreshortened and
edge-on. Yet still, we’re missing
forty-one percent. Math may be
my nemesis, but I get this.
We don’t know what we’re
missing. More than knick-knacks
and photos deep-sixed in the
attic. What about every crater
never noticed, never explored?
So many grainy possibilities
forgone. Close your eyes and
look hard at the moon tonight.
I was only joking about the
cheese. What I meant to say
was there is still reason to
believe that at any given moment
for whatever reason there is
more than meets the eye.
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Title and quotes (in italics) from: https://www.spaceanswers.com/astronomy/how-much-of-the-moons-surface-can-we-see-from-earth/ABOUT THE POET
Cindy Veach is the author of Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry
Press, Nov. 2017). Her poetry has appeared inAGNI, Prairie Schooner,
Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Journal, and
elsewhere. She manages fundraising programs for non-profit organizations and
lives in Manchester by the Sea, MA.
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